Politicians in every country seem to think of their countrymen as immature and untrustworthy and in need of constant supervision and control like they were all ten year old children being supervised in grade school and particularly so when it comes to firearms. They want a nice docile controllable p...

The number of license holders is small as you say. What's interesting to me is that 69% of the license holders are age 50 and older. The younger generations don't seem to be interested enough to jump through all of the hoops of inspection and permission and taxation. 0.2% (893) were aged 17 years or...

Interesting insight in stock to barrel "precision" fit for accuracy.

Obviously there are very few new posts here now days. It's unclear who is looking at the site at all. Sometimes, strangely enough, there seem to be days where hundreds of people are looking at it at the same time when I login. However, since the hundreds aren't saying anything they all could be some...

Bingo. You explained it. Just before I was drafted serial numbers weren't issued any longer. The Social Security number did double duty.

I noticed after I posted this subject that there is still genuine Vietnam dirt in the one I posted a photo of. I wore that one in my boot strings. The other one hung around my neck on a chain. Looks like your tag has larger letters in it, or something, to not have the religion thing on a line to its...

I remember the "Christian Name" designation growing up. Guess, that would cause an uproar if used in some official request for personal information now days, particularly if someone is definitely not Christian and takes offense. And again, who's to say you can only have first middle and la...

Recently the Department of War, formerly the Department of Defense, decided to reduce the number of religious abbreviations on dog tags. In the Christian category the Mormons were left out and that caused a ripple of consternation in high political ranks until that exclusion was replaced. Back in 19...